IFR Aspid Sports Car: Who's scared? Me scared?

If there were a prize for the ugliest car of the British International Motor Show this year, the upcoming IFR Aspid Sports Car roadster would have a good chance to be a winner. Certainly inspired by Lotus' and Caterham's super-light sports cars, the Aspid certainly looks like a product of interbreeding between Frankenstein and a cheap Chinese ghetto-blaster stereo (omg, just look at those head lights!).

The car will reportedly be available with a choice of two 2.0-liter engines. The base model will come equipped with a 270hp naturally aspirated powerplant and the more expensive version will get the supercharged version of the same engine capable of producing up to 400hp.

Although ugly as hell, the Aspid with the supercharged engine will nevertheless be pretty fast, taking only 2.8 seconds to jump from zero to 62mph, another 3.1 seconds to cross the 160km/h (100mph) mark and then exactly 3 more seconds to come to full stop. This (theoretically, of course) makes it better than the Ultima GTR, which takes 9.4 seconds to complete the 0-100mph-0 feat.

Anyways, the car is almost here and soon some of us will probably spend from $150,000 to $300,000 to get the Spanish snake.



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